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The text frames design practice value through serendipity, a culture of interruption, and deconstructive creativity, then critiques how agile software norms can suppress key design behaviors. It introduces scenarios, models, and operational playbooks to turn design operations into an integrated, high-functioning team practice, including ResearchOps and team coordination.","DesignOps Handbook  \nBy Kate Battles, Meredith Black, Dave Malouf, Collin Whitehead, and Gregg Bernstein (editor)  \nDiscover. Learn. Elevate.  \nIntroducing the best practices, stories, and insights from the world’s top design leaders. Loaded with in-depth books, podcasts, and more, DesignBetter.Co is your essential guide to building remarkable products and teams.  \nCheck out the rest of the DesignBetter.co library  \nDesign Systems Handbook  \nDesign Leadership Handbook  \nDesign Thinking Handbook  \nPrinciples of Product Design  \nDesign Ops Handbook  \nDesignOps is the key to scaling digital product design teams with more efficiency. As companies mature and invest in design, they need to operationalize workflow, hiring, alignment between teams, and more so designers can focus on design work while someone else takes care of the rest. Learn how creating these centralized services and systems helps grow integrated, highfunctioning teams at the best companies in the world.  \nINTRODUCING DESIGN SYSTEMS  \nContents  \nIntroducing DesignOps  \nAmplify the value of design   \nDesignOps scenarios and models  \nModel structure  \nPutting DesignOps into play  \nRubber meets the road  \nTeam coordination  \nDesignOps is a team sport  \nResearchOps  \nBut first we research  \nChapter—01  \nIntroducing DesignOps  \nAmplify the value of design  \nBy Dave Malouf, DesignOps Summit and IxDA  \nI’ve always been on the fringe of people in the design community who love how design works more than they love designing. Throughout my career as a designer, I have leaned more toward process over practice, and in some circles I was made to feel like a pariah because of my fixation on semantics (resulting in my last name being affectionately turned into a verb by colleagues: “maloufing”) .  \nThis focus on process took me to Queens, New York, in November of 2017, where I joined nearly 300 people to learn, share, and work on formalizing a new aspect of design practice management, DesignOps. The DesignOps Summit marked a turning point, as design operations had begun toemerge across the design industry. But for me, it was also the culmination of a very long, personal journey through design.  \nWhat makes design valuable  \nLet’s go back to the start. Back in 2005, I took classes ina design school for the first time. They were continuing education courses in industrial design, and through them, I was awakened to what design really is, and what properties make  \ndesign practice so uniquely valuable: serendipity by design, a culture of interruption, and deconstructive creativity.  \nSerendipity by design is the cultural core of a design studio. In a pre-digital studio, everyone’s work is externalized, visible, and transparent. This means that ideas are juxtaposed purposefully, passively, accidentally, and serendipitously. These forced interactions that give light to new ideas are core to how design works.  \nThe culture of interruption is vital for design to reach its full potential. 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